Quotes About Truth

The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.

The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.

Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.

The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!

A lying witness will perish, but the man who listens to truth will speak forever.

A wicked man hardens his face, but the upright man makes his way sure.

There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.

The LORDís eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.

for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.

Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,

to show you true and reliable words, that you may soundly answer those who sent you?

You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.

If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?

These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”—peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;

but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and rich blessing will come upon them.

An honest answer given is like a kiss on the lips.

Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.